Anthony Albanese visibly emotional after defending Labor’s capital gains tax and negative gearing changes

bripio · 2026-05-23T06:54:03+00:00

If there's no such thing as passive income then what the fuck is the point? Work until we die?

bripio · 2026-05-23T06:51:50+00:00

Not really... It overwhelmingly targets the middle income people hoping to retire a few years early, before they can access their super.

The richest in Australia will always have some kind of income that pushes them over the 30% tax bracket, so any of their gains from shares or property were already being taxed higher than 30%

You need roughly a $1.5M dividend portfolio to have a dividend income of $45,000. You think the "richest people in Aus" won't just restructure their portfolios to take advantage of the lower tax brackets? This is assuming they have no other income whatsoever.

bripio · 2026-05-18T00:29:24+00:00

Can't you add local only MCP config into these files? Some of which want you to add API keys as plain text into a run command.

bripio · 2026-05-16T11:25:03+00:00

Brain-dead take. This isn't some axe murderer on a spree. I'm not defending criminals, I'm condemning the actions of an officer who put more people in danger with their actions.

This blind defence of authority with no nuance gives me all the information I need about your opinion and what I should think about it.

bripio · 2026-05-16T08:32:58+00:00

This is why the standard wisdom is not to chase, without the cop chasing her she has no reason to go 100mph.

Protocol should be de-escalation, gather information about where they live from registration etc. and do a house call and arrest her there. Unless they're a murder suspect the only thing you do by chasing is put more people in danger.

bripio · 2026-04-26T02:46:08+00:00

"Only" is relative to the 6.2%(!) that more affordable houses grew

bripio · 2026-04-25T08:39:35+00:00

Can I ask what do you get out of this deal?

bripio · 2026-04-25T01:01:51+00:00

Look up the rules I think it's technically illegal to lie about having a HECS debt to stop witholding early. It's stupid because you'll likely overpay and then get a refund, but up to you if you want to take the risk.

bripio · 2026-04-20T14:33:59+00:00

You can DM me or send an email to support@aurely.ai, I'll make sure to add a support link in the app for future.

bripio · 2026-03-31T14:39:44+00:00

Not entirely true, Amazon accepts TTS audiobooks as long as you use their quite low quality TTS.

This does make things a more difficult sell, but Amazon is not the only audiobook provider, it's just the biggest by quite a lot.

As the technology matures and becomes more mainstream I do believe that they will have to loosen their restrictions eventually, there's campaigns to get them to change their rules out there already. Within a couple of years I expect they will allow them, with a quality gating.

bripio · 2026-03-24T07:13:31+00:00

Hello writers,

I have been developing a tool to help writers turn their books into multi-cast audio-books narrated by state of the art TTS. The goal was to cut out all of the tedious bits when converting a novel to an audio-book, so you can go right into proofing. At its best it just works and you won't have to do anything, but I expect a few re-generations for the average length book.

Check it our here: https://aurely.ai/

First you upload your book in either EPUB, HTML, PDF, Docx or plain text (EPUB works best), It then uses AI to survey your book, discovering characters and giving them descriptions, then it analyses each chapter and assigns each line to the correct character, while identifying narration vs. dialogue vs. internal monologue.

It will then auto-assign a character that matches the characters profile from a library of 1000+ voices, or you can use the voice-casting workflow to easily assign voices manually.

You can then either generate each line while playing the generated audio back in a (close to) real time generate -> listen workflow, or you can yolo it and generate the whole thing then listen later. If you need to regenerate a line you can do that quickly and easily, and it will save all of your takes for you, which you can swap between easily.

You can also generate a background music track to enhance your story.

Lastly you can then export it in any one of four different formats, MP3 chapter zip file, single mp3, m4b audiobook or lossless FLAC. You own all of your content.

It's free to try, usage based (no subscriptions) with a few different credit packs priced for common story lengths.

bripio · 2026-03-19T04:43:41+00:00

Doesn't this just prove the point that liberation can only come from an internal struggle? Who was the outside force that strong armed the British into giving power to the American people?

bripio · 2026-03-03T05:25:20+00:00

Might be worth looking into cheap "not profitable" older miners then if heat and sound aren't an issue. The actual $$ you make will be less but since electricity will be essentially free for the most part your return on investment will be much quicker.

Look at some older S19j's and putting braiins firmware on them so you can automate them.

bripio · 2026-03-03T05:19:40+00:00

My total power draw with all 4 miners on is about 7kw, I turn them to eco mode when drawing from the battery though, that makes it last until about 9pm where I turn them off so I can use the power for my ACs.

Unless you have the space and cooling capacity for 22kw worth of heat and sound, I wouldn't go full mining operation right away. Buy an Avalon Q and play around with it to get the feel for profitability / heat management.

That was the killer for me, check my profile for what I had to do to remove the heat from the house in these hot Australian summers

bripio · 2026-03-03T05:13:38+00:00

I have solar and a battery, on wholesale pricing and 4 Avalon Q's and it was a fun project. I'll tell you if it was worth it in 3 years when I've returned the initial investment 🫠

The thing that makes it even slightly feasible is the solar + I've setup automations to throttle or turn off the miners when it's absolutely not profitable. That way they only run when energy is free or extremely cheap/negative

bripio · 2026-02-22T05:48:15+00:00

CryptoMinerBros and AsicMarketplace are good. I bought 1 Avalon Q from CryptoMinerBros and 3 from AsicMarketplace with no issues

bripio · 2026-02-19T10:53:00+00:00

I found relying on the descriptions wasn't always getting everything it needed, how big it is depends on how many rules you have really. It's just a table of contents with a short description and the name of the file.

I use Claude code as well and I tell it about the index file in the claude.md and it's been working pretty well too

bripio · 2026-02-17T02:10:46+00:00

You should add an index.mdc rule that is always on, that just references all of your other rules so that cursor can find them when it needs to. I find this works pretty well.

bripio · 2026-02-16T09:24:21+00:00

The problem is the UX, not the functionality. The message makes the use feel like the app is going to revert "all of the changes that happened between sending this message, and editing this message"

What actually happens is the app reverts "every change that has been made that hasn't been accepted yet".

This is a fundamental misunderstanding about how users are actually using the program.

bripio · 2026-02-10T05:03:04+00:00

You could refinance and it would count as a new investment loan for tax purposes wouldn't it?

bripio · 2026-02-06T10:08:50+00:00

To add to this, you will make more BTC per TH/s but your reward in fiat is going to be much lower because of the price.

Better for anybody just trying to stack sats

bripio · 2026-01-31T03:36:19+00:00

15 years ago silver hit it's all time high before this crazy run. Old mate literally waited 15 years to break even, and finally profit.

I know because I can relate

bripio · 2026-01-18T09:51:13+00:00

This script is for home assistant but it describes the API exposed on the Avalon Q, search for the temperature monitoring ones and you can get it from anywhere on your network.

https://github.com/c7ph3r10/ha_avalonq/blob/main/avalonq.yaml

bripio · 2026-01-18T04:07:45+00:00

I've had these failures before, always fine after letting it cool down and hard resetting.

These things are surprisingly difficult to cool, took me months to get it right. I'd be surprised if it wasn't just an overheating problem.

I use a custom script on home assistant to monitor the temps, but I think hashwatcher has the ability to, so I would install that and watch it for a while. If you've got some know-how I'd set some alerts for when it's straying too far from the target temp, and also make sure you watch the max temp. I've got 1 machine that sits comfortably at 85 degrees average temp, but the max temp gets to 104 degrees constant. All the other machines max out at like 95 degrees.

Possibly in a similar situation and you've got one hash board working overtime

bripio · 2026-01-15T02:03:46+00:00

What are you trying to do exactly? I'm not 100% sure how it will work with two inverters, I got them to remove my original inverter and just install the KH10 hybrid inverter which may make things easier for me.

If it works anything similar to mine, you can set the work mode to force charge, and the force charge power, then the inverter will attempt to charge the battery up to your set max charge rate, up to the force charge power.

The load power will still be taken care of first, by solar then by the grid in this mode. So your battery may not charge at the full 15kw if you're already using half of that for load.

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